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Language Families

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The world's major language families. Language families are groups of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language.

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Indo-European (blue): Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania. Africa: Afro-Asiatic (light blue), Niger-Congo (purple), Nilo-Saharan (light green). Asia: Sino-Tibetan (brown), Dravidian (green), Altaic (blue). Australia: Indo-European, Aboriginal (bright yellow).

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Language Families

Afro-Asiatic

Altaic

Amerindian and Indo-European

Austro-Asiatic

Austronesian

Basque

Caucasian

Dravidian

Eskimo-Aleut

Indo-European

Japanese

Khoisan

Korean

Niger-Congo

Nilo-Saharan

Paleo-Siberian

Papuan

Sino-Tibetan

Tai-Kadai

Uralic

2.96%39.1%86.3%
79.9%
62.1%46.5%
44.5%81.0%4.67%96.1%62.7%1.37%
2.05%38.5%74.5%4.57%4.59%
97.2%4.35%1.49%61.0%39.2%
24.0%24.7%
100%3.88%5.61%65.9%
4.98%7.29%41.8%
17.1%76.1%5.05%
31.7%8.18%7.63%16.8%49.9%39.0%
80.3%30.5%51.4%20.1%
56.6%99.8%18.8%27.4%70.9%27.4%
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